Category: Elementary

This post is on my experience with reviving the importance of touch-typing and motivating students to learn it. It’s a round-up of my attempt to get 8-10 year old to practice typing on their own and setting up a typing competition as incentive.… [Continue Reading]

Desktops to laptops to tablets and smartphones, we’re exposed to all sorts of different input devices. The debate over teaching typing in schools is ongoing. My first computer course in the 8th was a typing class. A whole period. An entire 50 minutes dedicated to typing in computer lab.… [Continue Reading]

In February of this year I registered my elementary school in the annual World Education Games which brings together millions of students in some healthy competition to race against others in the same age category to answer math, literacy, and science questions.… [Continue Reading]

The floppy disk has been around for over 25 years, and according to Wikipedia – most manufacturers stopped supporting them by 2010. The floppy is pretty iconic, and you would think that anybody who’s been using the computer for a decent amount of time would know what it is.… [Continue Reading]

For the next two months, I’ll be working with 4th graders to get them started with blogging. This initiative came from my colleague, a 4th grade homeroom teacher, who will be requiring her students to post “reading responses.” It should be interesting to see how quickly students will wrap their heads around it.… [Continue Reading]